Police chief Tamim says local police will train in recognizing the physical appearance of Israelis.

Dubai's police chief said on Monday that travelers suspected of being Israeli will not be allowed into the United Arab Emirates even if they arrive with alternative passports.

Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim says the move comes after the killing of a Hamas operative in Dubai, blamed by the Emirates authorities on Israel's Mossad spy agency.

Tamim said a 26-member team used European and Australian passports to enter the country in January and kill Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

"We will not allow those who hold Israeli passports into the UAE no matter what other passport they have," Tamim said.

He did not explain what procedures would be used to identify the Israeli visitors, except that the police will "develop skills" to recognize Israelis by "physical features and the way they speak."

It was also unclear if the measure would apply to Israeli athletes competing in international sports events in the Emirates and how it could affect Israel's participation in international meetings here.

It was unclear if the measure would apply to Israeli athletes competing in international sports events being held there, such as tennis player Shahar Peer, a recent semifinalist in the local WTA tennis tournament.

The comment came as earlier, Tamim had charged Mossad with insulting Dubai as well as countries whose forged passports were used by its agents in the assassination of a Hamas military commander last month.

The Dubai police chief also said a 27th member of the team that killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in his hotel room last month had been identified, saying only that she was a woman.

"Mossad shouldn't come to us. We haven't done anything to Israel. This is an insult to us, to Britain, to Australia, to Germany and to New Zealand and it's shameful," Tamim told reporters in Dubai, a member of the United Arab Emirates.

Israel has not confirmed or denied it played any role but Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said there was nothing to link it to the killing. Hamas says Mabhouh played a role in smuggling weapons from Iran into the Gaza Strip, which Hamas runs.

The UAE, an Arab state that backs Palestinians seeking an independent state, has no diplomatic relations with Israel.

But it has established low-level political and trade links in recent years, with some Israeli officials attending events in the Gulf Arab state. Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer competed in the Dubai Championships last month.

Tamim said dual passport holders with Israeli nationality would face extra security procedures in future and predicted the alleged hit team would have problems traveling outside Israel.

"In the future, those we suspect of carrying dual nationality [including Israeli] will be treated very carefully," he said. "If Israel and Mossad mistreated Europeans, we will not... Our treatment of Europeans will not be affected."

People with the same names as many of the suspects live in Israel and say their identities were stolen. The passport abuse has drawn criticism from the European Union, and some of the governments involved have summoned the Israeli ambassadors to their countries to protest.

Dubai police said on Sunday the killers drugged Mabhouh with a muscle relaxant before suffocating him.

Iran: Probe Western countries for Dubai hit passport fraud

Iran's foreign minister on Monday challenged Western countries whose passports were used by Mabhouh's assassins to answer questions about whether they were involved in the crime.

Manouchehr Mottaki told the UN Human Rights Council that Britain, France, Germany, Australia, Austria and Ireland should answer questions about the role their security services or intelligence may have played in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.

Mottaki has in the past accused Western nations of fomenting terror under the guise of protecting human rights.

Meanwhile, Australian investigators are expected in Israel in the coming days to question several dual nationals whose names have been connected to the assassination of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai last month.

Israel agreed to allow two to three Australian police officers to question the dual citizens, after Australia's Foreign Ministry on Sunday requested approval from the Israeli envoy in Canberra to dispatch the investigators.

Australia last week said it was not satisfied with the Israeli envoy's explanation about the use of fraudulent Australian passports in the killing, after three people holding Australian passports were listed among 15 new suspects.

Media reports last week said that Australian authorities had approached Israel in the 1990s to seek assurances that its passports would not be used in Mossad activities after it was feared Israel had doctored New Zealand passports.

During that meeting, the reports claimed, the Israelis said they condoned such identity theft, with Australian participants describing their response as "enraged self-righteousness."

On Saturday, investigators from Britain's Serious Organized Crimes Agency arrived in Israel to interview dual nationals whose names were used on British forged passports tied to the killing.

'Two suspected Dubai assassins traveled to the U.S. after the hit'

At least two of the 26 suspected members of the team that tracked and killed Mabhouh in Dubai last month traveled to the U.S. shortly after his death, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.

Records show one of the suspects entered the U.S. on January 21 using an Irish passport and another arrived in the U.S. February 14 using a British passport, reported the Wall Street Journal, quoting "a person familiar with the situation."

Investigators are uncertain whether the two are still in the U.S. Police suspect the alleged hit squad members used fraudulently issued passports, and that the two may have left the U.S. using different travel documents.

Spokesmen for the U.S. State Department and Interpol both declined to comment on the Wall Street Journal report.

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Jesus that was a long post, you might wish to learn the various benefits of using paragraphs (or is that smugly done on purpose?). BTW Iraq is not a "state" it's actually a country.
Honestly, dude it doesn't work, you can copy and paste an Arab dude who after much soul searching finds he loves Israel and decides to rant negatively about Islam a second later... these copy and paste jobs are becoming quite common these days..
Do you actually think you are fooling anybody at all Mr Zionist??

I enjoy taking the like or lack of minded creatures who exhort lies, half truths & revisionist history to task. saying the stern gang introduced terror
in the mid-east is not only a proven lie for instance but shows that persons total ignorance of history. some even pretend to be CIA or some other wishful thinking outfit that "QUALIFIES THEM AS EXPERT" You are not & I can see through the likes of you like a cheap comic book. Jews have been around the Mid-east before christians & moslems even existed, How do I know this? By checking out the 5 billion plus best seller tome of all time.....THE BIBLE. My peoples mandate for the land , religion & yes existence on this planet. The old testament now. that is original.

The discussion of who committed the worst and most atrocities is about as an irrelevant and worthless subject as I can think of. I mentioned the Stern Gang only in response to your sarcastic, feigning implication to Ronen that you didnt know who the Stern Gang was. Now you know. You threaten, "dont get me started," re CIA spying on Israel and, "you aint seen nothing yet," re atrocities. Don't get started. You know nothing about the world of espionage, and I possess a document over 2,000 words listing Jewish attacks and massacres of Palestinians. Its a waste of time, but don't go on about Arab killings of Jews. You should worry, though, about your possible inability to apply moral judgement to acts like atomic bombing of Japan to end WWII, and Stern Gang killings of Arabs to facilitate taking their land.

Which topic are you interested in discussing The USA nuking 2 Japanese cities full of civilians or kamakazies? out of existence.
as well as firebombing Dresden Germany killing over 100,000 civilians or did we misstake them for generals? The Mai Lai massacre in Nam as agent oranging their forests. The Christmas bombing Cambodia. delousing the Laosians. Abu ghrab prison tortures & well as killing way too many civilians in Iraq & not a single world rebuke. Next post will be on Arab atrocities
before the howard STERN GANG was born. Stick around, you aint seen nothing yet:)

To help you understand the unreliability, even falsity, of info you read about CIA and Mossad, your claim of CIA paying American officers (presumably military) to spy on Israel is an excellent example. Military officers in any country are interested in tactical information, which they note and report to the superiors. That is all they have access to: personality data on host country officers, weight capacity of bridges, sources of water and such things that armies care about in the field. None of that is of the slightest interest to CIA. CIA collects strategic intelligence. If the US were to break the agreement (that Israel violates) and turn CIA loose against Israel, CIA would target on Mossad and Shin Bet to recruit penetrations agents. It would target the staff of the Prime Ministers office, military officers with access to Israeli long range planning, officers in the MFA, and definitely Israeli diplomats around the world. In one year, Israel would be shot full of CIA agents.

I am a bit surprised ron did not throw the LIBERTY INCIDENT in 1967 at mine & other faces here. HMMM.....why did the Johnson administration want that episode covered up? Mr resident expert take it away...
the howard STERN GANG is so 1940's :) lets get up to the present as the past tit for tat will go on & on & i will bury you arguments with ease.

Thought you might enjoy these memories of the Stern gang.
November 6, 1944. The Stern Gang, assassinated the British Minister Resident in the Middle East, Lord Moyne, in Cairo.
September 3, 1947. A box addressed to the British War Office exploded in the sorting room in London, injuring 2 persons. It was attributed to Irgun or Stern Gangs. (The Sunday Times, Sept. 24, 1972, p.8)
March 3, 1948. A 400 lb bomb damaged an Arab-owned building in Haifa and killed 11 Arabs, 3 Armenians and injured 23. The Stern Gang claimed responsibility.
March 22, 1948. A housing block in Haifa was blown up by the Stern gang killing 17 and injuring 100 others.
April 9, 1948. A combined force of Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Gang, captured the Arab village of Deir Yassin and killed more than 200 unarmed civilians, including women and children. Older men and young women were captured and paraded in chains in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem; 20 of the hostages were then shot in the quarry of Gevaat Sha

Please don't believe some expose in moment, whatever that is. CIA would have no interest in paying American military officers to collect intelligence. They do that as part of their job and report to the Defense Dep't., not CIA. Defense Dep't, would have no part of that.
Iranians got no classified info from Embassy takeover in 1979, it was all shredded. The CIA station chief was not captured in the takeover. If there were documents about Mossad, they would not be in the Tehran station.
No SR 71 was ever lost anywhere. You can find that out yourself. Why write if you haven't done that? Neither you, nor anyone else not holding a KH11 clearance would know what targets KH11 collected against. The clearance for access to KH11 production is only selectively allocated even within CIA. I have never known of KH11 collection against allied countries. Why would there be? Its a waste of film.
I don't wish to get you started, if you are going to repeat this type of hearsay and gossip mongering.

Whatever you career path, CPA, bank manager, salesman, stick to it. Not being in the business, you are unable to discern reliable information from hearsay and gossip. Writers about CIA and the world of espionage, have no access to classified information, thus their info is never, rpt never, reliable, unless CIA wants something to become public. In your case, you are terribly confused. Hanssen did not state anything about Israel and the Soviets. He knew nothing of such things. He was not the most damaging spy in US history: that was the Rosenbergs, or John A. Walker Jr. Hanssen did not compromise CIA recruitments in the KGB, he wouldnt know that info. Aldrich Ames, who worked in the CI staff of the Soviet Division of the Clandestine Service gave away identities of 10 CIA penetration agents in the KGB: all were executed. CIA director, Bill Casey, said Pollard passed Mossad US war plans against the USSR, and the Israelis sold them to the USSR for more exit visas for Soviet Jews.

The Pollard info selling to the soviets is a bald face lie & The FBI traitor HANSEN, you remember him? is the one with that disinformation. yeah the BIGGEST & most DAMAGING spy case in USA history, used Pollard as an excuse instead it was him who sold out the CIA & others to their deaths.
There was an expose in moment magazine about some American officers who were paid very well to spy on israel & were quietly kicked out from the late 1970's & early 1980's. Lets not forget the Iranians getting classified documents about the Mossad from the CIA station chief in Tehran as the embassy was overrun.
The SR 71 blackbird was nearly shot down by Israeli phantoms during the 73 war flying over Dimona. I know about that one too. KH 11 & other sattalites taking license plate readable plus photos of every sensitive military installation without permission. Do not get me started.

You obviously know that I have no interest in your views of my CIA background. I served 25 years as an operations officer in the Clandestine Service. Six of those years in Middle East operations. I am comfortable writing that because these postings do no reveal my true name nor place of residence. More about Mossad: according to the FBI and the Dept of Justice, Israel is the 2nd most aggressive nation running espionage operations in the US. China is first. Mossad pitched (tried to recruit) the US DCM (Deputy Chief of Mission) in Tel Aviv, and when he rejected the pitch they kicked him out of the country. They repeatedly broke into the homes of CIA officers in Tel Aviv. That ceased when one of the entry teams was caught. They have passed info from Pollard to the Soviets.
We do not run operations against Israel. US, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Israel have an agreement not to conduct intelligence operations against each other. Only Israel violates it

You just lost all credibility by claiming to be a CIA officer. Actually you were full of beans prior to this but give you the benefit of the doubt. You personally have no real expertise of the Mossad any more than i do.To even claim again they are not players in the field is a fantasy in your mind without any proof backing this up. Im waiting with baited breath. As for me being another Pollard, do not worry. I have no capacity to churn up classified info that will harm this nation in any way shape or form. Nor would i if i could. The fact that he still rots in prison to this day does tell me hit has something against our govt that will prove to be very embarrassing & dishonest about our intentions toward Israel. This is a 2 way street & Americans have spied against Israel already before Pollard. You already know that now dont ya?

The professionals I quote were, admittedly limited: officers of the BND, MI-6 and SDECE, and my own meetings with Mossad as a CIA officer. Nice guys, polite, well-educated, didn't speak the language of the country we were in, and seemed to be seriously uninformed about local political players behind the scenes. To laugh at the designation "second rate," is understandable for someone looking at the business from the outside. Mossad has conducted some professional operations, mostly against the US target, but you have no perspective to compare them with the major intelligence services in the world. They are not effective against Islamic terrorist organizations. CIA doesn't consider Mossad a player in that field. But, don't ever dream of becoming another Pollard: Mossad isn't professional enough to ensure you won't eventually end up in prison.

The British couple who will serve a month jail time for the AUDACITY TO KISS & HOLD HANDS IN PUBLIC are the one's behind the hammas hit!
No one here has nothing to say about the untolernt,sexist,racist,slave driven society of Dubai otherwise?

You quote most "intelligence professionals"
cosider Mossad second rate is laughable at best.
Who are these so called "professionals?" Isael not only survies, but thrives in spite of the overwhelming odds for the past 60 plus years!
I believe The Mossad based on declassifeid info
has pulled many amazing feats that are the envy of the world.For a tiny nation & a Jewish population les than 1% of the world, They have an amazing track record in comparision to everybody else. I am largely very proud of the them. May these heroes continue.

My, "it is clear Mossad did it," was written with tongue in cheek. There is no smoking Mossad gun for Dubai hit. The post was designed to point out that Jews think Mossad did it, because they all write either: no proof about Mossad, or they attack Dubai. As mentioned, not one criticism of assassins (because they think it was Mossad.)
The only serious comment was that Mossad is overrated. You said it is the opposite, but you know nothing about Mossad. Most intelligence professionals consider Mossad, small, under-financed (compared to major power services) and second rate. After Iraq invasion, US Senate Intel committee, and the Knesset, stated most of the intel Mossad had passed to US was false. CIA statement was "Israeli intel assistance is sometimes of dubious value, and at lack of quality was appalling." "Mossad doesn't know its Arab enemies."... "Arab political intel is lousy, laughably bad...it was gossip stuff mostly." "... They often pass faulty, misleading intel."

Innocent until proven guilty. You say it is "CLEAR" the Mossad did it. You & other detracters have a long way to go to prove it. It took these clowns over a week to figure out how this guy died. They aso said some agents fled to Iran & about 30 people in all are involved. So no arrests except some 2 or 3 palestinians! no Jews arrested. & just about no European nation "involved" will do anything anyway. They even said so.
Who is the CIA spokesman who said the Mossad is overated? It is the opposite pal.
911 was proof positve that the CIA was asleep at the wheel among other screwups.
This is a false flag operation & my main suspect is Iran. They needed to embarress the Mossad due to their penetration of its nuke program and occasional sabatage murder of its personal involved.

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